Pirates of the Caribbean (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Akella |
| Publisher(s) |
Bethesda Softworks Ubi Soft Entertainment |
| Distributor(s) | Buena Vista Games |
| Director(s) | Dmitry Demianovsky |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Xbox, mobile phone |
| Release |
Microsoft Windows Xbox |
| Genre(s) | Action role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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| Publication | Score | ||
| mobile | PC | Xbox | |
| Edge | N/A | 5/10 | 5/10 |
| EGM | N/A | N/A | 5.33/10 |
| Game Informer | N/A | 7.75/10 | 7.75/10 |
| GamePro | N/A | N/A |   |
| Game Revolution | N/A | C− | C− |
| GameSpot | N/A | 7.6/10 | 7.6/10 |
| GameSpy | N/A | |
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| GameZone | N/A | 7.9/10 | 7.5/10 |
| IGN | 5/10 | 7.2/10 | 7.5/10 |
| OXM (US) | N/A | N/A | 7/10 |
| PC Gamer (US) | N/A | 65% | N/A |
| The Cincinnati Enquirer | N/A | N/A |  |
| The Village Voice | N/A | N/A | 7/10 |
| Aggregate score | |||
| Metacritic | N/A | 64/100 | 65/100 |
Pirates of the Caribbean is a 2003 action role-playing video game for Microsoft Windows and Xbox, developed by Akella and published by Bethesda Softworks. The Xbox version was the first U.S. console game developed in Russia. A PlayStation 2 version was also originally in development, but was later canceled. An unrelated game by the same name was also released for mobile phones, as was a Game Boy Advance game.
Pirates of the Caribbean is an action role-playing game in which the player, as Captain Nathaniel Hawk, goes on a series of quests for any one of the countries that control the islands of the Caribbean in the 17th Century. The player can buy new ships, recruit a crew and hire officers who will follow Hawk on his quest and help him in battle. The game features gameplay that takes place both on land and at sea, and allows the player to upgrade their character by earning skill points and gain new abilities.
The game was originally developed under the name Sea Dogs II, and was to be the sequel to Sea Dogs, which was released in 2000. Apart from the pirate theme, the setting and the presence of the Black Pearl, the game otherwise has few connections to the Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl film, which was released around the same time as the game.
The PC version of this game is one of the first video games with multi-threaded code that is optimized for the Intel's Hyper-Threading technology.
Actress Keira Knightley, who played Elizabeth Swann in the film series, voiced the narrator (only two simple cutscenes at the beginning and at the end) in the game.
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